I'd have to agree. Lots of the HD folks (and LV) are older and many have real experience. Not at all like retail in other areas. I'd be curious to know what range of salaries they make, since they seem to attract and hold onto good staff. I noticed on the HD in-store recruiting ads that they offer a bunch of benefits as well.
That's a definate consideration. I could get a job working in lighting production (which I did for about the past 7 years, and off and on for about 20 years), paying a good bit better, but that would require driving 1 hour+ each way every day, and I would pretty much have to be married to it. I want to get away from that, and just have a simple job I go do, and then go home and try to enjoy my own life for a change. What I'd really like (I think) is the kind of job where you go
*live* it for periods of time like a couple weeks or a month, and then you're off for a week or so at a time. I wanted to get on with a big local lighting company that did a lot of touring and offered such opportunities (I'd been thinking about that for 15 years), but they closed their location in this area just about the time I finally wanted to go to work for them :-( That's life...oh ain't it!
That's the impression I got from someone a few years ago.
That's another thing...every HD or Lowe's employee I've talked to has liked their job, which means a lot to me. The only real complaint I've heard was from a guy in a paint dept. who said they are understaffed in his oppinion, so he can't get things accomplished the way he feels they should be. He was considering transferring to another store, but wanted to stay with the company.
Thanks for all that...those are all things that are very important to me.
So do I, and wonder why someone would present such an ignorant bit of "information" to anyone else, especially in a public forum.
Damn the SOB I'm currently working for...a greedy, dishonest asshole who lies to and about his employees for no apparent reason other than to hurt them, who never realizes his own mistakes meaning that he makes a lot of them (since he can't try to get over making them if he won't even acknowledge them), at the expense of those who are trying to work for him (as well as himself). Not damn him to Hell, but damn him to what he deserves!!!
Now, y'all know damned well that's a Licensed Practical Nurse.
I have known (in the biblical sense ) some of these erstwhile companions of the medical trade - and found them to be perfectly suitable to the task at hand. Of course, this is all past tense - as is most of my life.
YMMV (Lord, I miss seeing that here).
I'i'll agree up fr>> >$13? $16? What is your location? Here in Alabama I know nurses making
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Ok, so what does that mean? Most businesses that use forklifts have good drivers and bad ones. Just like any other job. The guy I know used to load my steel hauling truck and was one of the best I've ever seen. I'm not too shabby with a forklift myself. Have you ever ran a forklift? Ever screw up and bump something or dump something? Anyone who has used a forklift for a while and says they haven't screwed up is lying.
My college sweetheart graduated the same time I did. I started out making more money as a computer programmer than she did as a registered nurse. But in the end, she wins, and I'm out of a job for months and months.
Not necessarily. SWMBO is a surgical nurse, and got her RN with two years in college. The frightening thing she told me is that to get one's nursing license, one only has to score 50 % on the licensing exam.
Ouch. Watched 60 Minutes last night and that was scary enough. OK. My mother was an RN, but she started in, IIRC, 1931, maybe 1930, with 3 years at Yonkers General Hospital as a training field. Got a granddaughter who is an LPN, 2 year course. My mother was in NY, Kathy in VA, but both seem to have fairly stringent licensing standards. Mom retired, many years ago now, as acting adminstrator (would not title her "administrator" because she lacked a BS). She was also nursing services director and a major motivator of the campaign to build a new hospital, helping collect an awful lot of money in a few years. The hospital board's gratitude extended so far that they didn't cancel her health coverage over and above Medicare for the first year she was retired.
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Even *if* he were getting 40 hours a week, that's only about $32K a year. Even at that, the suits wouldn't get out of bed.
Same as above, about $25K. You called these "former tradesmen who are reasonably compensated for their knowledge of the trades"? We'll have to agree to disagree on this one.
People need to start referring to earnings in amount/year to really get a better basis for comparisons.
LPNs and community colleges have 2 year degrees, hospitals (if you can find one still doing it) give 3 year degrees, colleges give 4 year degrees unless you already have a degree, in which case the extra is 17 months to 2 years. The 4 years gets you a Bachelors of Science in Nursing (BSN).
RNs take a national registry board test. It's the same everwhere with the possible exception of California, but they have reciprocity with the rest of the country. Dentists and PAs have to recredential when they cross state lines. RNs just fill out a paper and pay the charge to get state credentials.
It's really annoying to have my mailbox filled by places that want to pay me to come work for them. %-) And the sign on bonuses are insulting, $3-5K. Really am sorry about your being out of work Phisherman. I was talking to Silvan about a career change to PT or Radiology, they take 2 years and pay OK to start.
It depends on which state is issuing the license. In New York State the minimum score is 80%, which is one reason the NYS license is recognized throughout the country. According to my daughter, who has taken the test twice, the NCLEX test is computerized, zeros in on you weakest area and hammers you.
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